House passes bill targeting ‘sanctuary city’ police with criminal charges whether they accomplish not help federal authorities with detention requests,including children at schoolDonald Trump’s blueprint to punish so-called sanctuary cities was blocked in court this week, but the concept is enjoying more success at state level, or where Texas is poised to enact a law forcing local police to act as federal immigration enforcers.
A bill passed the Texas state house shortly before 3am on Thursday,after 16 often heated hours of debate amid pro-immigrant demonstrations outside the capitol building in Austin. Democrats in the Republican-dominated Texas legislature proposed a series of amendments in a futile effort to stall and weaken the bill, a version of which was already advanced by the senate.
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Source: theguardian.com